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Gordon wants more electric cars :: KTAR.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Mark Perry with Nissan said the idea of people tooling down the interstate in an electric vehicle is no longer a pipe dream. Perry said, Nissans electric car "is completely highway capable. Tuesday April 21st, 2009 Top Talk Login | Sign Up KTAR LIVE Stream Stream TXT Twitter KTAR Rewards All Star Rewards Choose A Stream News Talk 92.3

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News Summary I

Plug In Partners

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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Hot Tub Time Machine WayBack Wednesday – Reposted Word-for-Word from June 25 of 2008

Creative Greenius

If that’s too Al a Gore-ical for you then understand this – we have already reached the emergency landing point of our flight. You’ll have free fuel for life for your new clean burning electric car, you’ll end your dependence on gasoline of any kind and you’ll stop pumping more C02 into the atmosphere. ” “Mom?”

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Driving on sunshine

Plug in America

“She’s put gasoline into a car twice in her life now.” Though he’d previously been too busy to focus on environmental concerns, he went solar in 2013 after seeing Al Gore’s global warming red-alert, “An Inconvenient Truth,” then bought a used Nissan Leaf two years later.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Answer: Al Gore is an investor in Fisker through venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Some of the most talked-about electric vehicles are slated to debut later this year and can travel at least 100 miles on a single charge (even if some of them run on an auxiliary gasoline engine when the battery runs low).

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

So were the electric Teslas, Nissans, Renaults, Betterplace vehicles, and Danish cars of the “International Mayor’s EV Parade,&# a couple days later. Delays aside, all systems were go with an order for 100,000 electric cars from Nissan already in place. They were long gone. At the moment all I wanted was a bike.

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The Cat Is Still On The Roof – And The Roof! The Roof! The Roof Is On Fire!

Creative Greenius

If that’s too Al a Gore-ical for you then understand this – we have already reached the emergency landing point of our flight. You’ll have free fuel for life for your new clean burning electric car, you’ll end your dependence on gasoline of any kind and you’ll stop pumping more C02 into the atmosphere. How’s mom doing?&#.